Courtney Polk, cousin of LaTasha Polk, who was killed in the New Year's Day attack, reacts at a memorial on Bourbon Street and Canal Street in New Orleans Jan. 4, 2025, (AP/Matthew Hinton)
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Between New Orleans and Los Angeles, bonds of solace in times of terror

Opinion

In a world gone haywire, how does the human spirit balance grief and hope? Jason Berry, writing from New Orleans, reflects on the spiritual quest for stability in times of tragedy.

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Pope Francis talks with U.S. President Donald Trump during a private audience at the Vatican May 24 (CNS photo/Paul Haring).

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Pope Francis to Trump: Reject 'hate, discrimination or exclusion'

Pope Francis on Jan. 19 denounced President Donald Trump's provisional plans to carry out a massive deportation of migrants as a "disgrace."

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Pope Francis, wearing a sling on his right arm after a fall, poses for a photo with Edmond Brahimaj, right, leader of the Bektashi community of Muslim Sufis from Tirana, Albania, during a meeting at the Vatican Jan. 16, 2025. The Vatican said the pope injured his arm in a fall and while nothing was broken, the arm was immobilized as “a cautionary measure.” (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
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Pope Francis falls and injures arm

Pope Francis suffered a fall and injured his right arm, the Vatican announced on Jan. 16. 

ByChristopher White
Bishop John Barres of Rockville Centre, New York, delivers the homily during Mass at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre on June 29, 2020. A federal judge confirmed Dec. 4, 2024, a plan that resolves and ends the bankruptcy case for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York, with a total settlement amount at just over $323 million for abuse claimants. (OSV News/Gregory A. Shemitz)

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Long Island, New York, parishes forced to pay millions to settle sex abuse claims

The Rockville Centre Diocese's 136 parishes paid $53 million of the approximately $323 million payout to victims of sexual abuse by priests and adults. Every parish filed for bankruptcy and contributed, whether or not they were being sued.

BySean Piccoli
St. Peter's pictured in sunrise.
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Pope appoints three US experts, two of them women, as dicastery members

Pope Francis has named three U.S. experts — two women and an abbot — to be members of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, a position once reserved for cardinals and bishops.

ByCarol Glatz, OSV News

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The case against Opus Dei

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Where in the world is JD Vance?

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Tool of faith or digital distraction? Catholic Church offers indulgences to faithful who fast from social media

Opinion

These difficult times require us becoming 'mature disciples'

NCR Voices

Read the 1985 editorial when NCR exposed the clergy sex abuse scandal

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Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich is pictured in a 2019 photo. In remarks Jan. 19 at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, where he was participating in a pilgrimage, Cupich reassured migrants in his archdiocese that the Catholic community stands with them in the face of reported plans for a mass deportation by the new Trump administration of people in the U.S. without authorization. (OSV News/Bob Roller)

US bishops set down some markers on immigration

NCR Voices

President Donald Trump came out swinging on the issue of immigration, writes Michael Sean Winters. The leaders of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy do not throw punches. But they are setting down some markers.

Between New Orleans and Los Angeles, bonds of solace in times of terror

Guest Voices

Modeling St. Sebastian in the (second) age of Trump

Guest Voices
A file photo shows the lethal-injection chamber at the federal correction facility in Terre Haute, Indiana. (OSV News/Federal Bureau of Prisons)

During the Jubilee Year, it's time to abolish the death penalty in the US

Guest Voices

There is neither a better time nor occasion than the Jubilee Year to abolish the death penalty in the United States, especially at the state level.

Vatican

Francis, the comic strip: With so little love in the world, Brother Leo helps Francis find some.
Francis, the comic strip

Francis, the comic strip: The world needs love

Francis, the comic strip: With so little love in the world, Brother Leo helps Francis find some.

The pope shown shaking Correa's hand.
Vatican News

Sodalitium confirms its suppression after news of it leaks with no Vatican confirmation

The controversial lay movement Sodalitium Christianae Vitae was forced to confirm news that it was suppressed by Pope Francis after two of its members leaked the news to a Catholic news outlet.
 

ByJunno Arocho Esteves, OSV News
Francis, the comic strip: The cartoon version of the inauguration is very cold!
Francis, the comic strip

Francis, the comic strip: Inauguration

Francis, the comic strip: The cartoon version of the inauguration is very cold!

ByPat Marrin
Pope Francis talks with U.S. President Donald Trump during a private audience at the Vatican May 24 (CNS photo/Paul Haring).
Vatican News

Pope Francis to Trump: Reject 'hate, discrimination or exclusion'

Pope Francis on Jan. 19 denounced President Donald Trump's provisional plans to carry out a massive deportation of migrants as a "disgrace."

ByChristopher White

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Tool of faith or digital distraction? Catholic Church offers indulgences to faithful who fast from social media

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Let hope lead your lives, pope tells seminarians

View from the Vatican

5 takeaways from Pope Francis' new autobiography

The pope stands speaking into microphone with hand to chest.

'My heart is with LA': Pope prays for people of Los Angeles as they endure wildfires

Francis referred to the disaster during his weekly general audience Wednesday and invoked Our Lady of Guadalupe, which is revered by many Latino Catholics.

Peak in background, foregrounded are group of people and U.S. flag.
Politics

Alaska Native leaders call to preserve Denali name for Mount McKinley

A few hours after his second inauguration address on Monday, Jan. 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Denali to Mount McKinley.

ByDaysha Eaton, Religion News Service
Mother Mary Queen of Peace Shrine sits atop Kabiyet Hill in western Kenya. Established by the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret, it has become a site of community gathering and environmental conservation. (Shadrack Omuka)
Faith

At Kenya's Kabiyet Hill Catholic shrine, conservation meets spiritual well-being

Kabiyet Hill in western Kenya is now home to a Catholic shrine that provides a shared space for worship while also facilitating conservation efforts to address environmental degradation in the area.

ByShadrack Omuka
Nick Norman throws a bucket of water on fire in his Altadena neighborhood Jan. 8. He, wife Timithie, brother-in-law Mitchell, and others worked to protect their home and others amid ongoing fires in Altadena and the Los Angeles area. (Courtesy of Nick Norman)
Faith

Catholic family in Altadena holds off flames, looters with courage — and prayer

Nick Norman says firefighters and law enforcement were of little assistance in protecting his Altadena neighborhood from wildfires and looters Jan. 8 and 9, but many in the community came together to protect what they could on their own.

ByTimothy J. Burger

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Science

'Grim but not hopeless': Catholics reflect as 2024 is hottest year on record

Indifference, pride fuel world's horrors; selfishness is suicide

Politics

Deb Haaland, America's first Native Cabinet secretary, considers her legacy

Culture

"Planetwalker" is a documentary about John Francis, an uncommon globetrotter who embarked on a yearslong silent trek for the environment. (Los Angeles Times)

Inspired by Thomas Merton, this 'Planetwalker' traversed the world in silent activism

"Planetwalker" is a documentary about John Francis, an uncommon globetrotter who embarked on a yearslong trek for the environment, with 17 of those years observing a vow of silence.

This is a scene from "Into Great Silence," a documentary by filmmaker Philip Groning about monks at a Carthusian monastery in the French Alps. (CNS/courtesy of Zeitgeist Films)
Book Reviews

New book combines reading with cinema for a highly spiritual experience

In A Whole Life in Twelve Movies, authors Kathleen Norris and Gareth Higgins seed fruitful conversation and fulfill the human need for "art that's steeped in the mystery of life."

ByMaryanne Hannan
Keira Knightley as Helen Webb in the Netflix series "Black Doves" (Netflix/Ludovic Robert)

'Black Doves' turns a religious symbol on its head

There are moments in "Black Doves" that feel like any given show about a spy organization full of deceit, murder and revenge. But at its core, the show is about moral code, human connection and spiritual renewal. 

ByLindsay Simpson
"Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata," an 1513-1515 painting by Domenico Beccafumi (J. Paul Getty Museum, public domain)
Book Reviews

Trans theology is subject of recently released book, 'Glorious Bodies'

In Colby Gordon's first book, Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature," the author's political theology implicates transphobia as a crucial underpinning of colonialism, white supremacy and Christian hegemony.

ByJeromiah Taylor

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Notre Dame's first concert a 'moment of grace' for young composer of Marian choral piece

Sienese exhibition at MET illuminates pivotal moment in history of religious painting

Book Reviews

Mysticism is the 'fiery core and beating heart' of religion, new book says

Faith

In Valencia, sisters bring comfort and assistance to flood survivors

After devastating, deadly floods in Valencia, Spain, Catholic sisters have contributed to recovery with spiritual help and physical labor, hand in hand with volunteers who are cleaning up affected towns.  

A statue of Mary rests nearly untouched in the rubble of a destroyed home in Altadena, Calif., Jan. 17, 2025, in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire, which began Jan. 7. (OSV News/Bob Roller)
Faith

Catholic sisters flee to safety from LA's 'absolutely heartbreaking' fires

Sr. Maribeth Larkin, whose Sisters of Social Service evacuated to stay with the Sisters of Notre Dame, advised other congregations to talk to each other, and "have an up-to-date plan, not one you dust off from 20 years ago."

ByDan Stockman
A Nun's Life, the ministry that has worked to tell the world about religious vocations through technology, is now a part of Global Sisters Report. (GSR/A Nun's Life)

Global Sisters Report acquires A Nun's Life Ministry

After nearly 20 years of sharing religious life through enterprises such as podcasts, A Nun's Life merges with Global Sisters Report.

ByDan Stockman
Columns

Decolonization, a personal journey

Sr. Sandra Sierra shares how her journey of decolonization has led her to question power, reconnect with her roots, and strive for a just future. She also reflects on the challenge of unlearning internalized beliefs and attitudes. "My decolonization journey has filled me with hope, in spite of the difficulties. I have seen how reclaiming our history and culture can empower people and transform communities," she writes.

BySandra Margarita Sierra Flores

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As Trump returns, we cannot fear repercussions for standing up, speaking out

Felician Sisters nonprofit provides psychological support for Chicago youth

Theologian: Synod clarified that 'we are the church,' not just clergy

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